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Dad pleads guilty in crash Josiah Alves, 7, died after his father, who is accused of racing another car while high on pot, slammed into a van. By Diana Hefley Herald Writer
EVERETT — An Everett man admitted Tuesday that he caused a 2012 crash that killed his 7-year-old son.
Josiah Alves, a second-grader at Madison Elementary School in Everett, was riding in the front passenger seat when his father lost control of his BMW and slammed into an oncoming minivan. The boy died at the scene.
Prosecutors alleged that John Alves was racing another car on Evergreen Way at the time of the crash. Alves, 32, pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide in Snohomish County Superior Court. He faces nearly two years in prison. Snohomish County deputy prosecutor Tobin Darrow has agreed to recommend just over a year, the
low end under state guidelines. Alves is scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 22. He remains out of custody. Police believe Alves was high on marijuana at the time of the crash. State toxicologists reported that he tested at 10 nanograms of active THC per See CRASH, back page, this section
OSO MUDSLIDE
‘Nova’ examines slide causes
Night hours at quarry revoked The County Council overturned the decision to allow expanded operations at Green Mountain Mine, citing issues with its permit. By Kari Bray Herald Writer
anyone wanting to understand the science of landslides. That science is framed by dramatic storytelling and imagery. Clark used interviews with survivors, including Amanda Skorjanc and Robin Youngblood, to dramatize the overwhelming scale of the slide and cost in lives and livelihoods. The interviews are accompanied by footage of emergency operations. See SLIDE, back page, this section
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Program airing tonight balances personal stories with top science By Chris Winters
‘Killer Landslides’
Herald Writer
OSO — Eight months after a landslide tore into this unsuspecting community, researchers have a fairly good idea what caused the hill to fail in such a spectacular and deadly manner. The slope has been susceptible to landslides for centuries, and an extraordinary amount of rain last spring prompted the latest event. This time, 43 people in its path were killed. A new episode of the PBS
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The “Nova” episode airs at 9 p.m. on KCTS-TV and will be followed by a rebroadcast of KCTS’s “In Close: Voices of the Oso Landslide” at 10. science show “Nova” explores what is known about the Oso slide and seeks to explain what caused the fast-moving slurry of liquid. It also shows how such
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catastrophes might be predicted so that people can be warned and evacuated. The program airs at 9 p.m. Wednesday on KCTS-TV. Made by Bainbridge Island filmmaker Liesl Clark, “Killer Landslides” balances the emotional stories of first responders and survivors with a state-ofthe-science look at what likely happened at Oso on March 22. While much of the material will not be new to Snohomish County viewers, “Killer Landslides” is essential watching for
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At the top of the drying mudslide in May, early morning light catches the hillside that collapsed in Oso.
EVERETT — The Snohomish County Council decided Monday to revoke permission for nighttime loading and trucking for Green Mountain Mine. In a unanimous vote, the fivemember council overturned a September decision by County Hearing Examiner Peter Camp. Camp’s ruling allowed the Granite Falls quarry, operated by Aggregates West, to load and haul material between 8 p.m. and 3 a.m. until Jan. 1 for the Boeing 777X construction project at Paine Field. The company’s permit with the county normally limits operations to 7 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Green Mountain Mine is providing rock, sand and gravel for Boeing’s new wing-fabrication plant in Everett, and Aggregates West requested extended hours to keep up with construction. The Mountain Loop Conservancy, an environmental group, filed an appeal of the hearing examiner’s decision and presented its case to the County Council on Nov. 5. Aggregates West did not follow proper procedures for changing the permit, conservancy attorney David Bricklin argued. Environmental impact also should have been studied, and the hearing examiner lacked adequate evidence to call the Boeing project an “unusual and justifying circumstance,” which is required to relax the mine’s operating restrictions, Bricklin said. After several executive sessions and a brief public deliberation, the council ruled in favor of the conservancy. “After hearing arguments and looking at the record, I feel that county code is quite clear,” council Chairman Dave Somers said. Aggregates West did not go through a full application process to amend the hours on the county
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